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Eighteen-year-old Jeffrey Parson begins this week confined to his parents' home in Hopkins, prevented from any contact with computers. Parson was arrested Friday on charges he modified and spread a computer worm that slowed Internet traffic around the globe this summer. If Parson indeed did what is alleged, his work is unlikely to win him much respect inside or outside the computer hacker community. Far from a mastermind, experts say Parson is just an especially unlucky example that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Early Wednesday morning--at 4:51 a.m.--Mars will be a mere 34.6 million miles from earth: the closest it's been in 60,000 years. The grandmaster of science fiction, Ray Bradbury, recently said he hopes that one night, 100 years from now, a youngster will stay up late reading his space exploration classic, "The Martian Chronicles," with a flashlight under his blanket--on Mars. We hear a speech from Ray Bradbury, who has also written "Farenheit 451," and more than 500 other published works. He celebrated his 83rd birthday on Friday. The speech was from the Pen Pals Lecture Series sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County.
Adolescent boys pose a real challenge for choir directors. Their changing voices are difficult to place in a choir. At the beginning of year a young man may be an alto, a few months he could be a tenor. The time in between can be awkward and uncomfortable for young singers. A group at St. John's University in Collegeville is spreading the word about the science of changing voices.
People in Ashland, Wisconsin are frustrated about how long it's taking to clean up pollution on their Lake Superior waterfront. The city wants to expand a marina and try to draw more tourists to town. But the shoreline is full of dangerous wastes from an old gas plant.
Probes from the United States and Europe are on their way to Mars. Scientists hope both missions will answer questions about what happened to the water that once flowed over the planet.
A special live broadcast from Mainstreet Radio, hosted by Rachel Reabe, in Fargo North Dakota. The economy is changing in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Straddling the rich farm land of the Red River Valley, this community is well known for its agricultural products. But its earning a reputation for its newest cash crop, high-tech companies which have produced over 5,000 jobs in the last decade. We discuss the high-tech organizations setting up shop in the area.
La Crosse archaeologists say they've discovered evidence of the origin of the Oneota tribe. It was an ancient indigenous people and the ancestor of many Midwestern Native American tribes including the Ho-Chunk and the Dakota. The find has spurred an energetic debate in the archaeology community that has led to more questions than answers.
Mobile Chernobyls. That's how opponents of the proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada describe the transport of tons of radioactive waste from more than 100 temporary storage sites at nuclear power plants across the nation. Over the objections of Nevada's Governor and its citizens, Congress recently voted to locate a permanent facility at Yucca Mountain, a 90 minute drive northwest of Las Vegas. We hear a special broadcast from National Public Radio's Justice Talking series. In Minnesota, the Legislature could take up a bill Thursday, the third day of its special session, that would clear the way for Xcel Energy to store more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island power plant.